Stepping away from her roles as wife and mother has allowed Mavis to become her own fully-realized individual. Nevertheless, thoughts about her children and the mother she could have been to them continue to haunt her. Gigi, meanwhile, struggles with memories of her own past as an activist, which exposed her to the horrors of police brutality. Gigi is not a maternal figure, but she clings to the memory of the dead boy in much the same way Mavis clings to the memory of her dead children.